Alcohol Makes Rats More Vulnerable to Compulsive Cocaine Use (1 of 1) (VIDEO)

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This study investigates how alcohol increases a person's vulnerability to addiction to cocaine. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 01 November 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.A. Griffin Jr. at Columbia University in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Prior alcohol use enhances vulnerability to compulsive cocaine self-administration by promoting degradation of HDAC4 and HDAC5."

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